Testing Strategy Lead

The Ontario Pension Board (OPB) administers the Public Service Pension Plan (the PSPP), a major defined benefit pension plan sponsored by the Government of Ontario. With over 106,000 members and almost $40 billion in assets, the PSPP is one of Canada’s largest pension plans. It is also one of the country’s oldest, successfully delivering the pension promise since the early 1920s.

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An exciting opportunity is available to be part of OPB’s pension modernization program, a multi-year business program encompassing all pension administration operations. This program will transform our business processes and systems to meet the evolving needs of our clients and stakeholders, deliver operational efficiencies, and enhance employee experience with the tools they use to deliver services.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Pension Modernization, the Testing Strategy Lead will play a pivotal role in the successful delivery of OPB’s pension modernization program, providing enterprise-wide leadership and expertise across testing, quality validation and solution readiness. As the primary business lead for testing, you will help shape the strategy and oversee the frameworks, methodologies, standards and best practices that guide testing across the modernization portfolio.

Through this work, the Testing Strategy Lead ensures solutions are thoroughly validated, business requirements are met, implementation risks are mitigated, and successful implementation is supported.

• Lead the development and ongoing maintenance of the program-wide testing framework, methodologies, standards, governance processes, controls and reporting practices, and promote their consistent application across the program.
• Develop and oversee comprehensive testing strategies, plans, schedules and validation approaches, and lead the planning, coordination, execution and evaluation of end-to-end testing activities, including system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), regression, conversion and operational readiness testing.
• Serve as the organization’s senior subject matter expert on testing lifecycle management, governance and quality validation, providing expert advice to business and technology stakeholders on testing approaches for complex business processes, integrations and data migration activities.
• Partner closely with the vendor and internal stakeholders to coordinate testing activities, align testing deliverables with program objectives, and support the timely resolution of testing issues, defects and risks.
• Monitor testing progress, risks, dependencies, defects and readiness metrics; identify, assess and mitigate testing-related risks and issues; and provide leadership in resolving complex defects and quality concerns.
• Assess testing outcomes and provide recommendations regarding solution acceptance and deployment readiness, helping ensure solutions meet business requirements, implementation risks are mitigated and operational readiness is achieved.
• Partner with business, technology and change management teams on business readiness and knowledge transfer, providing coaching and guidance to testing participants and supporting continuous improvement of testing practices, governance and automation capabilities.

• University degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Relevant professional certifications in testing, information technology, or related disciplines are considered an asset.
• Extensive progressive experience in testing, including the development of test strategies and governance, integration and UAT, defect management, vendor management, and leading large-scale technology implementations.
• Equivalent combinations of…